Hadi was mourning the death of his friend, Nahem Abdaki, killed in a car bombing several days before.
The residents of Bataween included Elishva, an old woman who still hoped for the return of her son Daniel, who went missing while serving in the military during the Iran/Iraq War Hadi, a junk dealer and storyteller and Mahmoud, a young journalist. The novel then flashes back several weeks, focusing on the Baghdad neighborhood of Bataween. According to the memo, this department has recently been shut down after one of its representatives was discovered to be passing official documents to an outsider. The novel is set in Iraq in 2005, and begins with a top secret memo written by an Iraqi intelligence committee investigating the Tracking and Pursuit Department, a bureau that employed astrologers to predict the locations of future terrorist attacks. The following version of this book was used to create this study guide: Saadawi, Ahmed.
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